A scary-looking creature with “devil” in its name was spotted close to the surface off Tenerife, a Spanish island.

Feeling that tug on the line, an angler sets the hook and reels in a small sunfish, then asks the perennial question: Should I keep it? Sunfish, also known as bluegills and pumpkinseeds, are a go-to ...

Also called an angler fish or sea-devil, the most horrifying part is the multiple rows of spiny teeth in its wide mouth. In fact, large adults have been known to eat diving ducks and seabirds.

The remarkably rare fish are hardly ever seen, but when they are it is typically at depths between 656 and 6,561 feet. This particular angler fish, however, was seen near the surface, which makes ...

KAGOSHIMA—A fish that was nearly a meal for an elderly islander turned out to be the first of its species ever found in Japanese waters, researchers said. Despite its name, which was coined 230 ...

“With a pair of witnesses watching, the fish weighed 3.91 pounds, and measured 18.5 inches long.” That weight was enough to replace the standing Ohio record for white crappie — but just barely. The ...

In what started out to be just a normal fishing trip for a mixed group of anglers, things soon turned interesting. “It looks like we’re going to eat fish tonight,” said Alex Olson, 8, ...